Weekly Gamester Reset (Hurray Olympics edition)

It’s a great week to be a sports fan. There’s the Olympics that started on Friday. I was up until 3 a.m. watching badminton and equestrian events of all things. If you go to nbcolympics.com later on in the day, you’ll be able to check out some of the events live. You have to download Microsoft Silverlight (which isn’t that bad) and you get nice little buffet of sports to choose from.

Personally, I like to watch some of the weirder sports that you don’t get to see every day like women’s team handball or judo.

But this is a video game blog (that’s Sega’s Beijing Olympics 2008 pictured up there) and without further ado, here’s this weeks highlights.

Apparently, the photoshop guy wasn’t working that late. Next, Electronic Arts issued a statement about how they would handle the player on the cover and how he would affect the league in the new game.

2. It was a good week for preorder bundles. Cliff Bleszinski announced that players would get a replica chainsaw gun otherwise known as a Lancer if they order a special Gears of War 2bundle.

At $140, it’s one of the most expensive special edition’s we’ve seen. But if you can get a real-sized gun with a chainsaw on it, it may be worth it.

On the Sony front, the folks over at LittleBigPlanet are offering a bundle that includes a burlap bag and SackBoy Krato and SackGirl Nariko from God of War and Heavenly Sword respectively. The characters are downloadble character, but they look hella cool. Now if they can only make real Kratos SackBoys …

3. Footy enthusiast Patrick Cant tries his hand at Wonder World Amusement Park. He found it lacking on a number of different levels. Please hide your kids.

That lead me to wonder if Nintendo has run out of good Wii ideas. Until we see screenshots of what Shigeru Miyamoto is up to, Nintendo will likely have to depend on third party titles for its motion-sensing console.
5. In the girliest game ever category, we have news that a Project Beauty is coming out. It is a virtual makeover game where players can apply makeup to their scanned-in faces. This would appeal to wannabe supermodels or Kiss fans.